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State Senator | Democrat | 3rd Middlesex District MA

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Mike Barrett is State Senator for eight Massachusetts communities — Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln, Waltham, Weston, and a large part of Lexington.

Mike serves as Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy. The committee’s jurisdiction covers everything from cell phones to alternative energy to public utility reform to carbon pricing.

He previously served as Chair of the Senate Post-Audit and Oversight Committee, a unique body charged with overseeing implementation of all state programs run by the Governor and his appointees. Upon entering the Legislature several years ago, Mike was appointed Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Families and Persons with Disabilities, an assignment with wide responsibility for programs that help poor women, abused and neglected kids, troubled teens and people with physical and intellectual challenges. Over the course of his term, funding for the Department of Children and Families reversed course and began to climb, after years of steady and injurious decline. Mike also serves as Senate Chair of the Mass. Legislature’s Disabilities Caucus.

For 17 years before his 2012 election, Mike made his living in health care and information technology, first as CEO and General Counsel of the Visiting Nurse Associations of New England, a health care system composed of 70 home health nursing agencies, and then as a health care IT analyst for Forrester Research and Critical Mass Consulting. Prior to working in the private sector, Mike served in both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and State Senate, where he was a leader on issues ranging from gay rights to human services.

In 1990, during his first stint as State Senator, Mike wrote an Atlantic Monthly cover story in which he advocated a longer school day and year for American students. A year later, he was named one of nine commissioners on the National Education Commission on Time and Learning, created by the U.S. Congress to examine the issues raised in the Atlantic article.

In 1992 Mike drafted and saw through to enactment domestic violence legislation for Massachusetts that was precedent-setting in the United States, in that it required judges to consult a comprehensive computerized registry of offenders before they ruled on requests for restraining orders. He was also successful as lead sponsor of major environmental legislation regulating uses of toxic materials in manufacturing within the state.

Mike graduated from Harvard College and the Northeastern University School of Law. He lives in Lexington with his wife Nancy. They have twin daughters.

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For the historic parts of Massachusetts (so, the entire state) this is huge. Having initiated this in a conversation with Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll in December, I am jubilant and grateful.
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Rescuing the American Revolution's big birthday

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Healey-Driscoll got the ball rolling. Now it's up to the Legislature. Dear Friend, The American Revo...
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Private jet financing takes a hit with SVB's failure. @Massport, look again at that problematic private jet hangar development out at Hanscom. ... See MoreSee Less

Where Will Startups Turn To Now That SVB is Gone?

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State Senator for Bedford Carlisle Chelmsford Concord Lincoln Waltham Weston and a large part of Lexington. Senate Chair of the Committee on Energy.

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Senator Mike Barrett @senatorbarrett ·
17 Mar 1636778580439973932

For the historic parts of Massachusetts (so, the entire state) this is huge. Having initiated this in a conversation with Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll in December, I am jubilant and grateful.

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Rescuing the American Revolution's big birthday

Healey-Driscoll got the ball rolling. Now it's up to the Legislature. Dear Friend, The American Revolution has a h...

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This piece makes the whole private jet thing look disgusting. And that's just the plutocratic angle. The greenhouse gas angle means it's beyond disgusting. @Massport, ditch the jet hangars. Don't turn @HanscomField into Disgustingville. via @NewYorker

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Zillow, but for Jets

The private-aviation market is down, so a wannabe oligarch tries out the Guardian Jet Vault 4.0 to look for some deals.

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Private jet financing takes a hit with SVB's failure. @Massport, look again at that problematic private jet hangar development out at Hanscom. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-03-13/svb-crisis-where-will-startups-turn-to-now-that-svb-is-gone?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter via @opinion

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Good news alert: “Global CO2 emissions rose less than initially feared in 2022 as clean energy growth offset much of the impact of greater coal and oil use”

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Global CO2 emissions rose less than initially feared in 2022 as clean energy growth offset much of the impact of greater coal and oil use - News - IEA

Global CO2 emissions rose less than initially feared in 2022 as clean energy growth offset much of the impact of...

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…. To keep greenhouse gas emissions in Massachusetts in check, I urge @Massport to cooperate with local aviation innovators Connect Airlines out of Bedford and Plug Power Inc.’s R&D operation out of Concord.

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Mike Barrett

State Senator | Democrat | 3rd Middlesex District MA

Bedford, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Lincoln,
Waltham, Weston, and a large part of Lexington

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